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Chinese Spying Facilities In Cuba Signal
America’s New Cold War

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Posted By: earlybird, 7/10/2024 9:30:46 AM

China has likely upgraded and expanded its spying facilities in Cuba, according to a new report by an American think tank. (snip) The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, produced the study as a follow-up to The Wall Street Journal’s reporting last year that revealed China had secretly agreed to pay cash-strapped Cuba several billion dollars to establish a Chinese electronic eavesdropping facility on the island. This facility is likely to be used for intercepting communications and gathering intelligence on the United States and its allies, according to CSIS.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: earlybird 7/10/2024 9:34:46 AM (No. 1753585)
Midhael Pillsbuey's Hundred Year Marathon laid out China's plans re the US in 2015. Worth anyone's time, an exceptional work by a China expert.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: earlybird 7/10/2024 9:35:36 AM (No. 1753586)
Michael Pillsbury.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Californian 7/10/2024 9:39:07 AM (No. 1753589)
This isn't at all interesting compared to their purchased land next to bases all over the mainland US.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 7/10/2024 10:53:44 AM (No. 1753637)
We have to kick out all the Chinese students despite the fact that they pay full tuition. They are all spies even if they don't want to be because their families back in China are under pressure. Plus they like being spies, they like putting one over on Uncle Sam they think that makes them smarter. But they're just Crooks.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 7/10/2024 10:55:42 AM (No. 1753641)
And Ithey have to disgorge all that farmland.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Venturer 7/10/2024 11:59:23 AM (No. 1753695)
They already have a spy residence on I-95 just north of Arlington cemetery and they sent 30,000 Chinese spies in over our southern border they need to pay Cuba to spy for them?
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 7/10/2024 12:14:22 PM (No. 1753712)
Chinese spying facilities were first identified in Cuba at least 10 perhaps 20 years ago, I remember it clearly. Nothing new.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: privateer 7/10/2024 12:16:05 PM (No. 1753715)
Re: farmland...sod off or sod under. FTA: 'With Cuba’s proximity to the United States, it’s a prime location for Beijing to establish these spying facilities.' What about the Monroe Doctrine? I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis. One more reason to off JFK. Cuba stood to gain.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 7/10/2024 12:36:19 PM (No. 1753743)
How many made-in-China items did you buy this week? Your dollars spent in Macy's, for one, go back to Red China to fund its military build-up. Meanwhile, Americans have their backs turned, watching mindless reality shows on network television.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: chumley 7/10/2024 1:39:20 PM (No. 1753801)
Yeah but in their defense, the CIA has been preoccupied with priority projects, like getting Trump and creating viruses to release on us. So far the communist Chinese have done my freedom less damage than the communist Americans.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: danu 7/10/2024 3:02:37 PM (No. 1753866)
if the island of cuba were to sink precipitously... many birdies , just 1 stone.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Strike3 7/11/2024 5:47:22 AM (No. 1754220)
Is it "spying" if you allow giant spy balloons to fly casually over your country and don't shoot them down because they might fall into somebody's cow pasture, is it simple treason or is it just the popular thing to do? The United States has spying facilities close to and inside Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and hundreds of other countries, some labeled "hostile" and some labeled "allies." We have no cause to complain about Cuba, which also houses some of our own spy operations. Nobody trusts anybody and we don't even trust our own citizens.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Rumblehog 7/11/2024 6:54:43 AM (No. 1754259)
Take them out one by one with drone strikes... problem solved. "Monroe Doctrine" with an Asian accent.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: rikkitikki 7/11/2024 9:04:37 AM (No. 1754331)
Chinese spying facilities in Cuba? What about the tens of thousands of Chinese men who Biden has allowed to illegally enter the country? Aren't they a bigger threat by 1000X?
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Zigrid 7/11/2024 10:24:47 AM (No. 1754384)
Obama/biden are in the pockets of china and have been for four years...so bring it on...WE are Americans and will overcome our enemies....MAGA!!
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Reply 16 - Posted by: mc squared 7/11/2024 10:37:11 AM (No. 1754392)
#9: Just try to avoid Chinese products. You will be naked and without any home furnishings. Even some Buicks are made in China.
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